It seems that Mu Boyan is really in love with this femme fatale named Ning Shuang!

Bai Zhi pursed her lips and smiled dispensably, but her hand silently clenched the bloodstone hanging from her neck.

What secrets are you hiding?

"Young lady, young lady......"

A few clean voices unique to a girl in the distance pulled her mind back from floating outside the clouds, and Bai Zhi turned around, it was a maid dressed as a maid looking for her.

Ignoring her inappropriate dress and title, Bai Zhi reluctantly responded to her, "Something?" ”

"Old lady, I tell you to go to the ancestral hall now, she is waiting there, saying that she has something important to discuss."

"Oh......" Bai Zhi raised an eyebrow, "Then let's go, you lead the way." ”

After a while, after countless pavilions and pavilions, corridors and courtyards, I saw a lot of Mu family members dressed in ancient times, all of them with ancient rhymes and ancient styles, and called her a "young lady", Bai Zhi had to sigh again in her heart that the Mu family's wealth was generous, and she had to change a modern rich area into an ancient merchant mansion, and successfully used money to smash out a group of "domestic servants" who accompanied the role-playing.

Until the maidservant stood in front of a building with a mountain and water at its back, with low eaves and a roof on the top of the palace, but it was a bluestone slab piled up with a hanging mountain method, and asked her to go in alone.

Looking at the Mu family ancestral hall where the gate was wide open and the statues of the two gluttonous giant beasts in front of the door were lifelike, Bai Zhi sighed that it was really unusual, so she stepped forward fearlessly, automatically ignoring the trembling look of the maid.

The ancestral hall is full of Sen Sen tablets, Mu Yaxue, the wife of the deceased family owner, kneeling in front of the tablet, her back is pious, praying for blessings, and the four high walls are carved with gilt technology The family history of the Mu family since the Song and Ming dynasties, but the figures visible on the murals have not increased since the Qing Dynasty, and the most strange thing for Bai Zhi is that there is a woman who runs through the entire mural from beginning to end, except that she no longer wears the iconic cheongsam, her eyebrows can be vaguely seen to be like frost!

She frowned, looked at it again, and saw a man dressed as a scholar at the end, obviously different from the temperament of the ancestor of the Mu family, the merchant family, gentle and elegant, with a bookish atmosphere, almost jumping off the wall and standing in front of her.

What a peerless scholar with a brilliant literary spirit, but between his eyebrows and eyes, he is so compassionate and compassionate, and Top Gun who wants to save all living beings from fire and water is so blind.

It's just that there was a prostrate ancestor of the Mu family kneeling in front of him, as if begging or forced, which made him helpless and sad.

Just seeing these murals, Bai Zhi's mind automatically made up a lot of bloody Mu family history, and was about to continue to enrich his brain.

"Zhi?" But Mu Yaxue, who was slowly getting up, interrupted her brain's train of thought, "You are now the young lady of the Mu family, and it is reasonable for me to call you Xiaozhi." ”

"It's just, do you know why I called you to the ancestral hall that made the Mu family frightened today?"

"Maybe it's because I'm now the eldest daughter-in-law of the Mu family, and I want to pay homage to the ancestors of the Mu family and sit on my real name." With a perfunctory mouth, Bai Zhi's gaze was firmly fixed on the tablet at the highest place of worship.

There is no merit and no fault, only the word "Ziqing" is written on it, but the tablet occupies a higher position than the first head of the Mu family, and even surpasses all the ancestral tablets of the Mu family.

It's strange to say, since she entered the Mu house, she has heard the name "Ziqing" countless times, at first they said that he was the deceased Mu Ziqing, the son of the Mu family, and he was also the object she wanted to marry, but when she got married, it was obvious that she was married for a thousand years, and she was the "Ziqing" who cursed the Mu family for generations, and she was actually the daughter of the sacrifice, and she was lucky not to die, so that she could become the daughter-in-law of the Mu family with an empty name according to the contract signed in advance, but who is this "Ziqing"?

Obviously, the Mu family hated him so much, why did they enshrine his tablet at the highest place, almost to the gods?

Mu Yaxue followed her line of sight and looked at Ziqing's tablet, and said quietly, "You are a smart person, you know that this is not the reason, but you have a lot of questions, a lot of curiosity, and you can't figure it out." ”

"Yes, I'm so confused, like I'm stuck in a fog, I can't wait to get rid of all my confusion at once and step into the truth, but I don't know, is Mrs. Mu willing to answer them one by one?"

Mu Yaxue chuckled, the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes rippled layer by layer, if it weren't for the silver hair, there would be a hint of elegance and peerlessness, and it was expected that she was also a very beautiful woman when she was young.

"It's not something I can answer for you, it's just that if you really want to know, it's not impossible," Mu Yaxue's gaze was soft, but very penetrating, looking straight at the bloodstone in her collar, "but it may cost her life." ”

Bai Zhi was speechless, if she didn't want to say it, she wouldn't say it, everything had to cost her life, she really didn't die, she was a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, "As long as Mrs. Mu dares to answer for me, I dare to pay with my life to listen." ”

"Are you really so afraid of death?" Mu Yaxue flinched a little, "It was not easy to climb to the position of the Mu family's daughter-in-law, but I had to give up the endless glory and wealth in the second half of my life just for a secret, is it worth it?" ”

It's really excessive, if she hadn't had enough of this supernatural world, and the second task of the fast crossing task was to find out the truth about the Mu family's thousand-year-old curse, and now she couldn't even find out if Yu Nian had a clue about whether she was in this world, would she care about this secret, and would she not hesitate to exchange her life?

It's just that Yu Nian may not be in this world, rather than not being able to meet it all the time, it is better to complete the task of fast passage quickly and go to the next more reliable world to find him, otherwise she will not be so eager for quick success!

"Everyone has a scale in his heart, and only he knows whether it is worth it or not. So don't try to measure the behavior of others by your own values. Bai Zhi lost her politeness and politeness, and her words were much sharper, "Mrs. Mu only needs to tell me whether you can answer my doubts, and I have my own decision as to whether I can afford to pay the price." ”

Mu Yaxue was silent for a moment, turned around, and stroked the nearest tablet with a wistful expression, which was the tablet of her husband who had just been put on it and died not long ago, "You are right, everyone has a scale in their hearts, whether it is worth it or not, only he himself knows." ”

"So, maybe you are not to blame for Boyan's father's death, but you also caused it. It was you who deserved to die, but he died in your place. It's just an ordinary person who is not worth mentioning, how can your life compare to him, why do you want him to die? ”

Saying this, she raised her head gloomily, "So in my opinion, why do you have to accompany him to the funeral in order to relieve the hatred in my heart!" ”

"Originally, I called you here alone to let you die, but I didn't expect that," she pointed to the bloodstone on Bai Zhi's neck, "That Ziqing, who was killed by people and had no corpse, would give you his heart stone to protect your life, obviously you have only seen it once, how can you get into his eyes?" ”

"After all, whether it is worth it or not, everyone decides." She smiled bitterly, even the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes deepened, and she became older and older, "I can't kill you, I can only die by yourself." ”

As she spoke, she took out a rectangular, exquisitely crafted brocade box from the corner of the table under the tablet, and handed it to Bai Zhi tremblingly, "Bring this to Ning Shuang, and when she opens it, tell her that Ziqing's heart stone is here with you, even if you complete the task, if you don't die under Ning Shuang's hands on the spot, you will come back here, and I will tell you all the truth about the Mu family." ”

Bai Zhi had a bad expression on her face, took the brocade box, and had to go to Ning Frost to die because of the worse fast passing task.

When she came out of the Mu family ancestral hall, it was already dark outside, and there was still a trace of life during the day, and many traces of the Mu family's servants could be seen walking on the trail completely disappeared, and the huge Mu house was like a dead city, devouring the vitality of all the occupants.

There was not a single star in the night, even the moonlight was dim and pitiful, only the antique red lanterns hung under the eaves, emitting scarlet light, illuminating the path as if it was paved with a layer of blood, and a gust of wind blew, Bai Zhi shivered unexpectedly, trembling and following Mu Yaxue's instructions, and walked towards Ning Shuang's residence.

The bloody disaster sent to the door was really too late for people to hide, so she rushed to touch the porcelain, and it was really a lantern in the thatched house - looking for death ().

At last I arrived at the residence of Ning Shuang, which was a small three-story attic, and there was a courtyard full of stars, and the small white flowers bloomed on the messy branches, and the red light of the lantern was crossed by a layer of blood, and there was a trace of hideousness for no reason.

Bai Zhi walked into the courtyard and shouted a few times, but no one responded, only to see a little light on the top floor of the attic, like a candle flame, eerie.

Hard-headed, she entered the attic, the door was ajar, as if leaving a door for her, she trembled and shouted a few more times, "Frost, frost......?" ”

Still no one paid attention, so she hesitated at the door, or she would come back tomorrow during the day to find the frost, anyway, she wouldn't run away, and she was not in a hurry at this time.

"Bang bang bang .........!" But there were a few sounds of tables and chairs rubbing together from the top of the building, as if someone had knocked down the chair and smashed it on the table.

Bai Zhi's expression froze, no longer hesitated, rushed into the door, raised his feet and ran up the stairs, but left a trace of scheming, deliberately slowed his steps, although he went upstairs quickly, he did not make a sound.

When we finally reached the top floor, the door was still ajar, and the flickering candlelight spilled out of the door, spilling on the wooden floor outside the crack in the door, but it was an eerie flesh color.

Bai Zhi had only seen this color of candlelight once before, but she would remember it for a lifetime, that is, when she was sacrificed to the high platform of the four directions, she was surrounded by candles made of corpse oil, which could only be emitted.

"Woo woo woo ......" suddenly came a sound of being choked by the neck, on the verge of death, but unwillingly, let out a suffocating whimper.

With a slight pause, she leaned against the door, tilted her head sideways, and peered into the room through the crack in the door.

I saw that in the afternoon, at the order of Mrs. Mu, the maid who led her to the ancestral hall was firmly pressed on the long table by a monster who was not a human or a ghost, stretched out her long and sharp hand on the long table, and sucked blood on the main artery in Bai Nen's neck, and saw that the divergent and dim pupils were already dead.

And the whimpering sound came from the monster's throat, like the sound of a seductive kraken.

The monster's head was full of silver hair, some gray, sucking up the blood, it seemed to be not satisfied, licking the blood at the corner of the mouth, and biting it at the maid's eyes, and the maid's eye sockets were empty in an instant, and the long nails were lifted and scratched, and the maid's chest was cut open, and the red heart was taken out, and then satisfied, like tasting some delicacies from the mountains and seas, and ate it in a small bite.

The cold candlelight shone on the monster's face, and a miracle happened, seeing that hot heart was completely swallowed by it, so the silver threads on its head gradually blackened, and became dark hair like a cloud, and when it raised its head, the wrinkles on its face like furrows, one by one, disappeared quickly, and instantly turned into a smooth and beautiful young woman.

And the eyebrows and eyes became more and more familiar, and after thinking about it for a long time, Bai Zhi remembered, isn't that frost!